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Vital drugs run low in Nyanza hospitals

Patients seeking treatment in public hospitals in the county are increasingly being sent to private health centres as a drugs and equipment shortage bites. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

A biting shortage of essential drugs has plunged public hospitals in two Nyanza counties into yet another crisis, barely a month after a protracted workers’ strike in Kisumu stalled health operations.

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